IMHO, he gave us the truth, but not the whole truth.
No.
He was asked if they collected the data on Americans. He said no. That was a lie. It was in no part true. Anyone who knew about Bill Binney or the Quantico Circuit knew it was a lie even before the echo of his words died down in the room.
Yes, this person criticized the government, but more importantly, she publicly criticized her employer and that is why both she, and General McChrystal lost their jobs. I would expect no different if someone in the private sector criticized his employer.
I wonder how much of the piracy has to do with bullshit like Apple pulling a bait-and-switch on Apple TV subscribers. The entertainment industry thinks that they can string people along as much as they like, and then they wonder why things get pirated.
It might be a grandfathered plan. I haven't really paid it that much attention recently. I will say, though, that at one point in the past, i strung them along for four years on a grandfathered plan with unlimited data (slow by today's standards - 144k) and a tetherable phone . . . that was around 2001-2005.
According to this calculator, I should be paying $210/month before any taxes and fees, with my particular carrier and profile. I am, in fact, paying $140 after all taxes and fees. Given that it provides incorrect information for what I know, I don't feel I can trust it to provide me correct information for comparison purposes.
I hope you're right. It took a couple of years for the Church Commission to form and do its thing, and the heat needs to be on long enough for a similar effect to be had now.
Attitudes change as business changes. Consider Sony as a case-study.
In 1987, they introduced a recording format called DAT which was originally headed for the consumer market. It could record tapes in your choice of 48/16, 44/16 or 32/16 linear PCM. A tape recorded in 44/16 mode could make a perfect copy of a CD if you used the interface developed by Sony and Philips, called S/PDIF (and which now graces allmost all DVD players) This format was squashed in the consumer market by the content industry, relegating it to the pro-audio and audiophile markets. For 1980's technology, it was really nice.
Fast forward to the first decade of the 21st century, and you find the shoe is on the other foot as Sony's acquisition of Columbia Records back in the 80's has now infected its thinking. Sony, along with some others, took specific steps to break the ability of the then-current generation of recording devices (i.e. our computers) to copy CDs by causeing CDs automatically, and without users' consent, to install a dangerous kernel patch in the name of making it impossible to rip a CD.
When Google was championing net neutrality, they weren't an ISP. Now they are, and like many other ISPs, they oppose it.
Same company, different time in their history, different product lines, different attitude.
But what are they going to do about the I/O? It takes me about 20-30 minutes to write a single 5 GB DVD and verify the data on the disc. Now with a 300 GB disc, it will take me a full day to write a disc?
That seems a tad slow. I can write and verify a 5GB DVD in about 8-10 minutes, and that's using a four-year-old burner. You may want to see if something on your machine could be tuned a little better.
You know, I can't help but notice that we've been fortifying and militarizing our borders . . . I know they say it is to keep "others" out, but how hard would it be for those guns to suddenly point inward?
They're replacing my hard drive? This is perfect timing! My hard drive just died on me yesterday.
I asked the NSA if I could borrow their copy, but they haven't gotten back to me yet. Hopefully they will soon so I will be able to populate it once Dropbox ships me the replacement.
There are 12, actually (there is no channel 1) but you are right. There are 8 vacant. I suppose something could be done there, provided some care was taken to ensure that it also didn't interfere in adjoining markets.
One thought that I've been playing with lately is the idea of putting very narrowbanded signals into channel boundaries. WWVB's signal is extremely narrow banded, having a theoretical nyquist frequency of 0.5 Hz (though the reality is probably a bit broader due to modulating square waves onto the carrier). I suppose you could put something like this on the boundary between channels without it causing too much havoc.
Channels 2-4 are contiguous; 5 and 6 are adjacent, and channels 7-13 are contiguous. That looks like 9 inter-channel boundaries that could be used for this.
On a side-note, I am very tired of the misinformation being spread that all digital TV is UHF. It isn't even close. Some folks get this, but instead misunderstand that all digital TV is VHF-high or UHF. That's closer, but still wrong. The only part of the band that has been deprecated is the top of UHF (channels 52-69 were removed), which has been reallocated for two-way usage. That's kind of why I jumped in initially.
What freed up VHF TV? My area has more VHF channels post-digital than it did before. Locally, channels 6, 13, 23 and 51 are all on VHF (RF channels 6, 12, 7 and 13, respectively).
I disagree that requiring JS to function makes a site broken. There are a number of useful things that just can't be done in HTML or in server-side scripting without it looking like ass and working like shit. Some of the problem, too, is shortfalls in HTML itself. I've always been annoyed that you need to use JS to cause the cursor to default to a given field in a form (and maybe that's been fixed in HTML5 -- I haven't looked for it yet).
However, you did land on the primary thing I was thinking of a couple of posts ago -- that, as you so perfectly put it, "Sandboxing doesn't stop spying and tracking, it doesn't stop stupidity like disabling right-click menus, or any of a million other problems." Like you, I am not going to stand by and watch while they hijack my browser's functionality and stick their noses where they don't belong. Trackers are specifically designed to subvert the sandboxing by using a third-party location for the relevant scripts and data.
clickclickdrone started by saying that, "The police set up vans with cameras that scan the number plates of all the cars that go down the street that day, cross ref for road tax, MOT and/or insurance and send out automated fines if any aren't in order."
I follow on by corroborating that, furthering that it can also be fit into a smaller form factor, and that the technology works.
Comparing the costs of these cards to the cost of using a cheque cashing store is apples and oranges. Someone who gets a cheque can take it to a bank and use it to open an account.
I don't have a problem with these cards existing, however, I am completely opposed to them existing without opt-out. Nobody should ever have to take your pay on one of these, not even for your first pay cycle on a given job. They should be offered for those who have no other options.
Oh, and the kickbacks that some employers are taking from your industry? That's bullshit. That's got to stop.
In the area I live in, about half the police cruisers have ANPR cameras on them. Wherever they go, they collect data. I know of one case where an acquaintance got stopped because his registration was flagged for an insurance lapse. There was no other violation than that, just that the computer went "ping!" when he drove by the cop car.
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No.
He was asked if they collected the data on Americans. He said no. That was a lie. It was in no part true. Anyone who knew about Bill Binney or the Quantico Circuit knew it was a lie even before the echo of his words died down in the room.
You all are looking at it the wrong way.
Yes, this person criticized the government, but more importantly, she publicly criticized her employer and that is why both she, and General McChrystal lost their jobs. I would expect no different if someone in the private sector criticized his employer.
I wonder how much of the piracy has to do with bullshit like Apple pulling a bait-and-switch on Apple TV subscribers. The entertainment industry thinks that they can string people along as much as they like, and then they wonder why things get pirated.
It might be a grandfathered plan. I haven't really paid it that much attention recently. I will say, though, that at one point in the past, i strung them along for four years on a grandfathered plan with unlimited data (slow by today's standards - 144k) and a tetherable phone . . . that was around 2001-2005.
The calculator is also wrong.
According to this calculator, I should be paying $210/month before any taxes and fees, with my particular carrier and profile. I am, in fact, paying $140 after all taxes and fees. Given that it provides incorrect information for what I know, I don't feel I can trust it to provide me correct information for comparison purposes.
Oh, how I wish I had some mod points right now.
I hope you're right. It took a couple of years for the Church Commission to form and do its thing, and the heat needs to be on long enough for a similar effect to be had now.
Done. I even used Google to find it, just to make sure They saw me do it.
Not really so much . . . I saw his face on TV this very morning on our local NBC station, on a nationally-broadcast show.
I'm not convinced that a standard would force everything to one size. Consider the ATX hierarchy: Mini-ITX
It would be harder, but I don't buy that it would be impossible, or even unreasonable.
What wrong with summary? It look's fine to me. /s
But how many units? The reason I ask is that I believe Apple products to be a little higher-priced on average than other PCs.
Attitudes change as business changes. Consider Sony as a case-study.
In 1987, they introduced a recording format called DAT which was originally headed for the consumer market. It could record tapes in your choice of 48/16, 44/16 or 32/16 linear PCM. A tape recorded in 44/16 mode could make a perfect copy of a CD if you used the interface developed by Sony and Philips, called S/PDIF (and which now graces allmost all DVD players) This format was squashed in the consumer market by the content industry, relegating it to the pro-audio and audiophile markets. For 1980's technology, it was really nice.
Fast forward to the first decade of the 21st century, and you find the shoe is on the other foot as Sony's acquisition of Columbia Records back in the 80's has now infected its thinking. Sony, along with some others, took specific steps to break the ability of the then-current generation of recording devices (i.e. our computers) to copy CDs by causeing CDs automatically, and without users' consent, to install a dangerous kernel patch in the name of making it impossible to rip a CD.
When Google was championing net neutrality, they weren't an ISP. Now they are, and like many other ISPs, they oppose it.
Same company, different time in their history, different product lines, different attitude.
That seems a tad slow. I can write and verify a 5GB DVD in about 8-10 minutes, and that's using a four-year-old burner. You may want to see if something on your machine could be tuned a little better.
You know, I can't help but notice that we've been fortifying and militarizing our borders . . . I know they say it is to keep "others" out, but how hard would it be for those guns to suddenly point inward?
They're replacing my hard drive? This is perfect timing! My hard drive just died on me yesterday.
I asked the NSA if I could borrow their copy, but they haven't gotten back to me yet. Hopefully they will soon so I will be able to populate it once Dropbox ships me the replacement.
Oh, wait, that was figurative? Oh. Nevermind.
There are 12, actually (there is no channel 1) but you are right. There are 8 vacant. I suppose something could be done there, provided some care was taken to ensure that it also didn't interfere in adjoining markets.
One thought that I've been playing with lately is the idea of putting very narrowbanded signals into channel boundaries. WWVB's signal is extremely narrow banded, having a theoretical nyquist frequency of 0.5 Hz (though the reality is probably a bit broader due to modulating square waves onto the carrier). I suppose you could put something like this on the boundary between channels without it causing too much havoc.
Channels 2-4 are contiguous; 5 and 6 are adjacent, and channels 7-13 are contiguous. That looks like 9 inter-channel boundaries that could be used for this.
On a side-note, I am very tired of the misinformation being spread that all digital TV is UHF. It isn't even close. Some folks get this, but instead misunderstand that all digital TV is VHF-high or UHF. That's closer, but still wrong. The only part of the band that has been deprecated is the top of UHF (channels 52-69 were removed), which has been reallocated for two-way usage. That's kind of why I jumped in initially.
I like this idea. Sort of the RF counterpart to round-robin DNS.
What freed up VHF TV? My area has more VHF channels post-digital than it did before. Locally, channels 6, 13, 23 and 51 are all on VHF (RF channels 6, 12, 7 and 13, respectively).
I disagree that requiring JS to function makes a site broken. There are a number of useful things that just can't be done in HTML or in server-side scripting without it looking like ass and working like shit. Some of the problem, too, is shortfalls in HTML itself. I've always been annoyed that you need to use JS to cause the cursor to default to a given field in a form (and maybe that's been fixed in HTML5 -- I haven't looked for it yet).
However, you did land on the primary thing I was thinking of a couple of posts ago -- that, as you so perfectly put it, "Sandboxing doesn't stop spying and tracking, it doesn't stop stupidity like disabling right-click menus, or any of a million other problems." Like you, I am not going to stand by and watch while they hijack my browser's functionality and stick their noses where they don't belong. Trackers are specifically designed to subvert the sandboxing by using a third-party location for the relevant scripts and data.
Yes, it warranted comment. It warranted comment because anyone can say anything here, and it is useful to have the facts corroborated.
Wow! Who pissed in your cereal this morning?
Follow me with this for a second.
clickclickdrone started by saying that, "The police set up vans with cameras that scan the number plates of all the cars that go down the street that day, cross ref for road tax, MOT and/or insurance and send out automated fines if any aren't in order."
I follow on by corroborating that, furthering that it can also be fit into a smaller form factor, and that the technology works.
So . . . YOUR point is?
I would be with you 100% if I felt that the Internet at large could be trusted. It can not.
Comparing the costs of these cards to the cost of using a cheque cashing store is apples and oranges. Someone who gets a cheque can take it to a bank and use it to open an account.
I don't have a problem with these cards existing, however, I am completely opposed to them existing without opt-out. Nobody should ever have to take your pay on one of these, not even for your first pay cycle on a given job. They should be offered for those who have no other options.
Oh, and the kickbacks that some employers are taking from your industry? That's bullshit. That's got to stop.
In the area I live in, about half the police cruisers have ANPR cameras on them. Wherever they go, they collect data. I know of one case where an acquaintance got stopped because his registration was flagged for an insurance lapse. There was no other violation than that, just that the computer went "ping!" when he drove by the cop car.